Live Performance Quotes - Page 2

• We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Song, Jesus, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

  Taylor Dane

  Children, Voice, And Love

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• So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.

  Philip Glass

  Real, Drama, Writing

  Interview with Bruce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

  Tim McGraw

  Memorable, Opportunity, Careers

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• The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Real, Jazz, Reason

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

  Richard Ayoade

  Sound, Variables, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.

  Panda Bear

  Couple, Powerful, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Bored, Twenties, Band

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

  Philip Auslander

  Moving, Live Theatre, Television

  Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge

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• It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Song, Years, Mixing

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

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• I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

  Claudia Lee

  Unique, Thinking, Track

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• I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

  Michael Stahl-David

  Hands, Trying, Way

  "Cloverfield – Interview with Michael Stahl-David". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. January 1, 2008.

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• I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Roots, Interesting

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• I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

  Renee Fleming

  Art, Thinking, Media

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• I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

  Elton John

  Mean, Income, Records

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• Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

  Ricky Jay

  Jobs, Writing, Challenges

  Interview with Geoff Nicholson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2011.

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• He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.

  Ann Patchett

  Opportunity, Tchaikovsky, True Life

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• Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Way, Performances

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• A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Rocks, Acting

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• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Identity, Determined

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• I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

  Kenny Wormald

  Mean, Differences, Television

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• I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

  Gareth Gates

  Eight, Musical, Theatre

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• Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

  Todd Rundgren

  Artist, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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